We’re loving this actor-turned-designer’s latest collection

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Can you imagine owning a business with your mother and working with her all day, every day? Amrita Puri thinks it a great idea. She, along with mother Smiley Puri, are the designer duo behind Akuri by Puri. About working with her mother, she says, “There is no one who gets me better than her. I think it’s amazing!”

Their spring/summer ’16 collection takes inspiration from Vietnam. While travelling in Hanoi, Puri was drawn to the landscape and ended up investing in paintings from the city. “It just sort of came to me that I wanted to create a series on Vietnamese landscape art by recreating the paint-like effect on cloth. In certain prints, you can see the brushstrokes. One of them specifically is meant to look like watercolour art whereas most of the other prints give the impression of oil on canvas.”

The collection features breezy maxi dresses, louche jumpsuits, bardot tops and everything else you want hanging in your summer wardrobe. As for whether she would venture into luxury with the clothing range, Amrita Puri says she wouldn’t change the exiting model of business. “I want my clothing to be affordable,” she states.